Gambling with the Nation: Heroines of the Japanese Yakuza Film, 1955–1975
A revamped period drama genre resurfaced after the Allied occupation of Japan (1945-1952), featuring androgynous comic heroines, who cross-dressed to perform male and female yakuza roles. By the late 1960s, they had been replaced by increasingly sexualized figures, and later by the ‘pink’ violence of the ‘girl boss’ sub-genre. Yet masculine themes in the ‘nihilistic’ yakuza films of the late 1960s and 1970s have been the focus of most scholarship on the genre, with scant attention paid to the female yakuza film. This paper offers an iconographic reading of the heroines of the yakuza genre,...
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